Author's Note:
Hey welcome back! Sorry for taking so long!
Here's the second chapter :)
His dark blue gaze sweeps across the bleak lands, spotting a familiar red clad figure hunched down beneath the black exoskeleton of a tree.
The dark earth colored munk walks over to him, "Alvin...what..." The rodent stops short and sighs, adjusting his glasses as his older sibling looks up, golden eyes wide as he cradles a bright glowing figure in his arms, red liquid drips onto the gray soil beneath it.
"You always manage to find them..." He leans down beside his brother and frowns, studying the faded figure's face, "How long has it been here?"
Alvin shrugs, eyes narrowed as he studies the injury to the spirit's midsection, "We need to try and send it back...it shouldn't be here Simon," He stands and looks around with a frown, "Where's the damn portal?"
Simon gestures over his shoulder, "Back that way, let's hurry before we get stuck here as well...I hate Limbo,"
The two brothers head off across the gray expanse of earth, ignoring the fog rolling around their feet and the tall slim figures moving silently off in the distance.
Simon's gaze flickers over to his brother, noting the way he's holding the spirit awkwardly, "Still not used to the cold feeling huh?" He asks, smiling as he earns an annoyed look from the other munk.
"It's gross Si, why are they cold and slimy and just...ugh," Alvin groans, barely tightening his hold on the clear figure in his arms as it moves, "Oh shit...oh shit it's moving," he whines.
"Geez and you always complain I'm the sissy, here hand it over," Simon reaches out, "It's only moving because we're getting close, if you didn't want to work with souls why'd you sign up?"
"I didn't want to be the one who kills people, I'd rather help the souls then slay them..."
The two brothers fall silent as the ground beneath their paws begins to fade to a soft green color, grass brushes against their calves as a mossy well comes into view.
Alvin moves forward and pushes a heavy metal covering off the top of the structure, squinting as a bright white light spills outward, going straight through him and bouncing off Simon's glasses, the beams shining through the other munk as well.
"Ok, dump it in," Alvin moves aside as Simon walks forward and carefully places the soul into the well, squinting against the glow as the light ripples briefly.
"Now let's get out of here..."
She doesn't think she's dead...she doesn't really feel like she is...her toes are cold.
Brittany slowly opens her eyes, taking in the pitch black room around her as a soft beeping fills her ears as the strong odor of various cleaning products fills her nose.
A hospital, so she is alive.
Tears trickle hotly down her cheeks and she sniffs loudly, rubbing at her cheeks in frustration, "Geez I didn't think the portal would dump us here too, I hate hospitals,"
"You hate everything Alvin,"
"I do not! Hospitals are creepy! Especially with aimless souls wandering around,"
Her entire body tenses as she stares at two boys arguing near the door, totally oblivious to her presence as they continue to talk to each other.
"Where's Theodore? Didn't he have to check out some hostile spirits in this town?" The one named Alvin leans over his companion's shoulder, trying to peer at mirror in his paws, "You're breathing in my ear..."
"Uh..."
They look up in alarm, staring at her for a moment before exchanging a quick glance between themselves, "You put her back wrong Simon,"
"What? I did not! She must've stayed in limbo for too long!"
"Nah uh! You probably contaminated her with your weirdness!"
"Weirdness isn't a contaminate Alvin and I'm not weird!"
Brittany frowns, beginning to become annoyed with their bickering, "Hey! What the heck are you two rambling on about? How'd I even get here, where's the guy who stabbed me? Did he..." She pauses, her face growing pale as her paws grip the thin sheets draped over her body.
The man could have done anything to her when she faded away...the chipette jumps in surprise as a pair of golden eyes peer up at her face, "You can see us?"
She jerks back with a sharp intake of breath, bright blue eyes wide as she stares at the munk lounging upon the bed, head propped up on his elbows as he watches her.
"Alvin please stop messing with her, she's obviously traumatized," Simon mumbles as he flips through some papers on a clipboard, "Brittany Miller...age 16, suffering from a deep puncture wound and significant blood loss...nothing else," The bespectacled munk sets the clipboard back down and sighs, "Alvin!"
The munk grins like the Cheshire cat as Brittany tries kicking him off her as he pinches her cheeks, "Let me go weirdo!" She cries, landing a decent punch against his jaw.
"OW! She hit me!" Alvin cries in both surprise and pain just as the door to the room slams open.
A nurse flicks on the lights and rushes over to the bed, "Ms. Miller what's wrong? I heard you yelling, are you in pain?"
Brittany only gapes at her, unable to respond as Simon slips through the woman's body, dragging a pouting Alvin along with him, "Ms. Miller?"
The brothers drop out the window.
Alvin, Simon, and Theodore are these spirit type beings who help retrieve the souls of those trapped in limbo that don't belong.
Thus why they retrieved Brittany and brought her back, she wasn't supposed to die just yet.
So you're probably wondering why Brittany can see them when it seems they're kind of ghost like...well you'll have to find out in the next chapter :D
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